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| In this issue of the Civic Engagement newsletter, we introduce you to some of the ways the University is working with a range of partners to build a stronger South Side.
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University welcomes other anchor institutions to ChicagoOn Tuesday, November 18, the University hosted the annual conference of the Anchor Institutions Task Force (AITF), which brought together nearly 200 representatives of higher education and medical institutions from across the country to share best practices and develop strategies for advancing the role of anchor institutions in their communities. Read more
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University's partnership with CASE helps grow local businesses Inter-City Supply has been providing soap, hand sanitizer and paper towels to the University of Chicago Medical Center since 2004. With an expanded hand-washing research project underway, UChicago Medicine is expecting soap use to increase by 50 percent. Read more
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Community Programs Accelerator kicks off Education Series for nonprofits The season’s first cold snap did not deter nearly 40 nonprofit leaders from turning out at 9 a.m., on a Saturday for the Doing Good, Writing Well workshop, sponsored by the Community Programs Accelerator at the University of Chicago. Read more
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Partner Spotlight: Timuel BlackRaised on Chicago’s South Side, Black began his life of social activism as a teenager, walking a picket line to protest discriminatory employment in his neighborhood. Working alongside political and social activists like Martin Luther King Jr., W.E.B. DuBois and A. Phillip Randolph, Black played a central role in efforts to organize unions, register citizens to vote, and eliminate segregation in the armed forces and Chicago Public Schools. He organized Chicago’s participation in the 1963 March on Washington and helped lead the successful campaign of Harold Washington to become Chicago’s first black mayor. Read more
Black is a member of the University of Chicago Community Advisory Board for the Obama Presidential Library’s op-ed. The Chicago Tribune recently published his impassioned case for why the Presidential Library should on the South Side. Read more
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Physics with a Bang!
Lecture & Open House
Students, families, teachers and especially the curious are invited to see fast, loud, surprising and beautiful physics demos performed by Profs. Heinrich Jaeger and Sidney Nagel. Talk to scientists. Participate in hands-on activities.
Saturday, December 6, 2014
11 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Kersten Physics Teaching Center
5720 S. Ellis Ave.
Chicago
| |  GROWING PAINS:
Public Schools + Design
Third in a series of conversations examining three public works projects on Chicago’s south side: demolition of public housing complexes, controversial public installations and performances, and public school closings.
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
6 p.m.
Arts Incubator
301 E. Garfield Blvd.
Chicago
| |  Technology & the Nonprofit:
Planning Ahead to Prevent Falling Behind
UChicago IT Services' Chris Riedel will advise nonprofits on designing and implementing a technology plan. Second in the Community Program Accelerator’s Community Education Series.
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
12 - 1:30 p.m.
Chicago Innovation Exchange
1452 E. 53rd St.
Chicago
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About us
The University of Chicago is shaped and inspired by the city of Chicago. Our growing partnership with our neighbors has the potential to enhance the quality of life and economic development of the South Side and the global reach of this vibrant city. UChicago has devoted the research and creative thinking of some of the nation’s top scholars, as well as millions of dollars in investment in recent years, to support local schools, jobs, health care, arts, housing, and public safety. Learn more about our civic engagement work at uchicago.edu/community.
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